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Question Paper Code : X62341

B.E./B.Tech. DEgREE ExamiNaTioNs, NovEmBER/DEcEmBER 2020

Eighth semester
Electronics and communication Engineering
Ec 1013/cs 1028 – wiRElEss NETwoRks
(Regulations 2004/2007)
(common to B.E. (Part Time) seventh semester-Regulations 2005)
Time : Three Hours maximum : 100 marks

Answer all questions

Part – A (10×2=20 Marks)

1. What is short distance baseband transmission ?

2. What is unique about voice oriented wireless networks ?

3. What is an ad-hoc network topology ?

4. What is cell splitting ?

5. What are VLR and HLR, where they are physically located and why we need
them ?

6. Distinguish soft handoff and hard handoff.

7. How does IEEE 802.11a PHY layer differ from that of IEEE 802.11 PHY layer ?

8. State the relationship between HYPERLAN-2 and WATM.

9. What are the maximum data rate supported by the following systems ?

a) IEEE802.15.4

b) Bluetooth

c) IEEE 802.11a and Hiperlann-2

10. How are piconets deployed in Bluetooth ?

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Part – B (5×16=80 Marks)

11. a) Define the time diversity, frequency diversity and space diversity. Explain how
diversity is used in rake receiver.
(OR)
b) Explain how to integrate Voice in Data oriented Network. Also explain a method
to cope with voice packet jitter.

12. a) i) Explain the different wireless network topologies. (8)

ii) Explain why the geometrical shape of the cell is hexagon. (4)
iii) For i = 2 and j = 2 draw the cellular structure depicting the cochannel cells.
Also find the reuse factor. (4)
(OR)

b) i) Explain how cell splitting, cell sectoring and lee’s micro cell zone concept
improves the capacity of a cellular system. (8)
ii) What is capture effect and how does this affects the throughput of the system ? (8)

13. a) i) Discuss in detail with block diagram(s), Is-95 CDMA forward channel. (12)
ii) What are the bit rates of the data services supported by IS-95 ? (4)
(OR)
b) Discuss in detail about GPRS.
14. a) i) Discuss the evolution of WLAN. (12)
ii) Brief on IEEE 802.11 standard. (4)
(OR)

b) i) Discuss the various aspects of wireless ATM. (10)

ii) What is wireless home networking ? Discuss. (6)

15. a) i) Explain the frame format followed in Bluetooth technology. (8)

ii) Discuss the connection management followed in Bluetooth technology. (8)
(OR)

b) i) Explain the wireless geolocation system architecture. (8)

ii) Discuss the performance measures for Geolocation Systems. (8)

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